This creative little film straddles an extremely fine line between disgustingly insensitive and side-splitting hilarious. I assiduously avoided this film in the theatres because I don't feel (does this make me a prude?) that suicide is really a laughing matter. However, when I finally rented the film I realized it had less to do with death than good old college hijinks.
Be warned: The opening credits are fairly offensive, with how-to diagrams on the various methods of teen suicide. But once the film itself gets underway, likable roommates/felons/numbskulls Josh and Cooper will quickly win the viewer over to the movie's lighthearted look at post-secondary "education" in America.
The most hilarious aspect of this film--the part that kept me chuckling long after I'd returned the video--is the way it takes popular stereotypes and runs with them. The paranoid computer geek, the dim college co-eds hopping from bed to bed, and the moronic party animal in the frat house are all played to great comic effect. (The funniest scene features an angst-ridden young rocker bloke who's almost too cartoonish to be real.)
On a more serious note, as a member of an interracial couple myself it was a rare treat to see a number of such couples presented in the film. It's not often that such pairings appear onscreen without being the center of attention for their "novelty." The producers at Paramount should be congratulated for presenting these couples as if they were the most natural and normal thing in the world--as they are!
Be warned: The opening credits are fairly offensive, with how-to diagrams on the various methods of teen suicide. But once the film itself gets underway, likable roommates/felons/numbskulls Josh and Cooper will quickly win the viewer over to the movie's lighthearted look at post-secondary "education" in America.
The most hilarious aspect of this film--the part that kept me chuckling long after I'd returned the video--is the way it takes popular stereotypes and runs with them. The paranoid computer geek, the dim college co-eds hopping from bed to bed, and the moronic party animal in the frat house are all played to great comic effect. (The funniest scene features an angst-ridden young rocker bloke who's almost too cartoonish to be real.)
On a more serious note, as a member of an interracial couple myself it was a rare treat to see a number of such couples presented in the film. It's not often that such pairings appear onscreen without being the center of attention for their "novelty." The producers at Paramount should be congratulated for presenting these couples as if they were the most natural and normal thing in the world--as they are!